Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-09-22

ii, as some writer asserts, "the mountains
have ever been the home of freedom" yet
the seaside has always been the nursery OF
intellect. The great poets, artists, orators,
historians, statesmen and engineers of Eu.
rope and America have, with few exceptions,
been born and raised within sight and sound
of the sea. Those babies who shall have the
good luck to be born at Lucadia will, in the
next century, be famous, for Lcucadia is to be
the home OF many artists and authors,
whose children, both with respect to their
parents and their birthplace, will be "born in
the purple"
You cannot overstate the advantages OF
such a country-you cannot over-boom it.
Here it is. 1t talks for itself with voices OF
health and of beauty; voices of healing and
of life; voices of vigorous ozone and entic-
ing balm; voices of Christmas roses and OF
oleahders and lilies blooming in the Jan
uary sunshine.
Of course it is new; of course it is a little
crude in some things; of course the Opera
houses are yet to be built, and the system OF
sewage yet to be perfected, but if you are in
elined to complain of these things inst turn
W thS tcltSIupll anu lCult ShlCd5O,
November, 1SS7.-The thermometer at the
Signal Service Office this morning registered
80 degrees below zero. A Minnesota zephyr
is approaching at the rate of 80 miles
hour Then, again, we will have the
Opera Houses and mansions and drives very
soon, and we never will have the billiards
or the snow.
A blind man ought to be able to see that
the tide of growth here will be like that oi
the Pontic sea, which "ne'er knows return
ing ebb." We have an exceedingly rich and
prosperous people-overy sixty millions
and wealth has accumulated since the wal
even in greater ratio than the population
Money is drug at per cent. per annum
There are more people in the United Statei
this day who are able to live upon their in
comes, than there are in Great Britain, Ger
| many or Russia. These people have filled
Florida with costly mansions-habitablt
only for three or four months in the year
and they have lined the Atlantic sea-coas
with summer cities, where the hotels ant
cottages are tenantless from October unit
June. They are now coming here ant
in five years there will be houses facing th'
sea, within stones throw OF each other, al
the way from Santa Monica to San Diego
bay.
And of all these miles of coast no plac,
presents so many attractions as Leucadia
The beach in front of it is better than at an!
other point, for the water shoals very slowl.
and the surf is very light, and for driving
purposes there Is not such beach on th
| coast. 1t is tweuty-mile track in perfec
condition, swept and sprinkled and graded
| by the tide twice each day, and the tide
the best and most economical superintcnd
ent of roads in the country. An abundan
| supply OF water for all purposes will b.
piped along every avenue, and the littl
city WILL within a season or two, be EN-
| powered in foliage. Leucadia is about two
thirds of the way to San Diego by the new
road of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fl
Railroad Company, and will com mand tn
trade of the rich valleys adjacent.
There is only one other such place as Leu
cadia in the world. 1t is little city on tn
Mediterranean, at the foot of the Alps, calle'
Mentone. Sam Cox immortalized the spo
| in his search for Winter Sunbeams"; an,
| at Mentone the conditions are not as perfec
as at Leucadia, for once in while tn
| 'mistrael" sweeps down on Mentone, ant
the landlords Golfers are depleted by tn
cost of providing fire for the other cough
ers." "a horrible pun, but all tastes mus
be copsulted.)
Lots in Mentone, SO feet front, sell for SO
600 francs. Lots in Leucadia ought to sell a
1897 for &E00(
each, but the chances are they will go at
| less figure.
If YOU want home, secure one at Leuca
dia. You will never be able to do better. l
you want to invest and earn three or fou
hundred per cent advance, here is you
chance, for there are plenty rich ESTIMATES
consumptives and bronchiters and blizzard
haters who will want Leucadia lots by AM
by, and who will pay any price asked TO
| them; and Nature has limited the supply
| such combinations of sea and shore, an
soil, and sky, and climate, and their manu-
| facture is not progressing fast enough t
make it likely that the market will be ovel
! stocked during this century 1t takes
| least one cataclysm to lay the foundations
such a paradise as Leucadia, and abou
| forty thousand years to bleach the mlnera
salts out of the soil so as to make 1t fit TO
| orange trees.
We want those enterprising people VIII
are here now to get the advantage of presen
prices. We are willing that those VIII
come next year shall pay two or three hun
dred per cent. advance; and they VIII hav
| to pay 1t whether we are willing or not
You think this is a boom, do you? Well, It'll
hardly the beginning of boom. People will
pour in here during the coming year by tn
thousands and tens OF thousands. They will
overrun shore and valley and mountain
side. All such town lots as those at Leuca
dia will be snatched up quickly. Be wise il
time and secure some of them while the,
can be bought for hundreds. After Will
they will sell for thousands.